A Harlot’s Progress

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…A Rake’s Progress (1735) and A Harlot’s Progress (1732), also make a didactic point about the wages of sin, using realistic details heightened with grotesquerie to expose human frailty and its sinister consequences. The grotesque is a recurrent feature of the satiric tradition in England, where comedy serves social criticism.…